By Jerome Dean Mahaffey

ISBN-10: 1932792880

ISBN-13: 9781932792881

The 3rd quantity within the reports in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the superb and lasting impact of 1 of yank history's such a lot attention-grabbing and enigmatic figures—George Whitefield. Jerome Mahaffey explores George Whitefield's position in making a "rhetoric of group" that effectively verified a standard worldview one of many colonial cultures. utilizing a rigorous approach to rhetorical research, Mahaffey cogently argues that George Whitefield directed the evolution of an American collective spiritual id that lay beneath the rising political ideology that fueled the yankee Revolution.

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